PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — His day started as what’s described as a ¾ house in Beechview, but it ended at the Allegheny County Jail.

Klein James Thaxton, 22, is accused of taking a hostage and paralyzing part of Pittsburgh.

“The only thing I could think is he was like probably going through some stress right now and all that, probably like rally down and stuff, but I still don’t know why he would do something like that,” Darell Jackson, a friend, said.

Last year, Thaxton was arrested for carjacking a woman in McKeesport and his friends say that’s not all.

“Kicked out of the military and all that, what happened when he stole the car, it’s just a lot, going through a lot,” Sterling Lawrence, a friend, said. “I don’t think –he couldn’t find a job.”

The Thaxtons live on the third-floor of an apartment building in McKeesport and neighbors say the Klein Thaxton they know is not the name they’re watching on the news.